1, viii. 2), who must of course have
been of Levitical descent, because his mother consecrated him
to the service of the sanctuary. Heman is the son of Joel
b. Samuel b. Elkanah b. Jeroham b. Eliab b. Tahath b. Zuph,
only the line does not terminate with Ephraim as in 1Samuel
i. 1 (LXX) because it is Levi who is the goal; Zuph.
however,
is an Ephraitic district, and Tahath (Tohu, Toah, Tahan, Nahath)
is an Ephraimite family (vii. 20). Further back the same elements
are individually repeated more than once, Elkanah four times
in all; he occurs once as early as in Exodus vi. 24, where also
he is doubtless borrowed from 1Samuel i. The best of it is that,
contrary to the scope of the genealogies recorded in1 Chronicles
vi., which is to provide a Levitical origin for the guilds of singers,
there is found in close contiguity the statement (ii. 6) that Heman
and Ethan were descendants of Zerah b. Pharez, b. JUDAH. The
commentators are indeed assisted in their efforts to differentiate
the homonyms by their ignorance of the fact that even as late as
Nehemiah's time the singers did not yet pass for Levites, but their
endeavours are wrecked by the circumstance that the names of
fathers as well as of sons are identical (Psalm lxxxviii.
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